Jonathan Ward offers glints of light in gloom
Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘A Wedding on the Beach’ and ‘Forever Yours, Boston’
An intricate story of a reunion of college friends, by Holly Chamberlain, and a clever pictorial history of Beantown, by Earl Brechlin
OFF RADAR: ‘Red Stone Fragments’
A new collection by Belfast’s former poet laureate Thomas Moore
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Rise, Decline and Renewal’ and ‘Steamed Open’
Douglas Rooks offers a fascinating up-and-down history of the Maine Democratic Party and Barbara Ross releases the seventh volume in her ‘Maine Clambake Series’
OFF RADAR: ‘Ghosts’
Since Abby Shahn and Mark Melnicove’s book essentially invites it, let me tell you a story.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: New releases from Maine authors
“Winterhill” is a dark, suspenseful tale of fraud, deceit, greed and murder from Thomaston author Christopher Fahy.
OFF RADAR: ‘Fireside Chats’ and ‘Water Village: The Story of Waterville, Maine’
Two books about the histories of Waterville and Waldo County
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Victoria Falls’ and ‘Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake’
James Hornor’s ambitious debut novel about modern male stereotypes and Sarah Graves’ second book in her new ‘Death by Chocolate’ mystery series
Portland’s Café Review marks 30 years of curating poetry from around the world
Founding editor Steve Luttrell is still the driving force behind the publication, which received recognition by the city on Monday.
OFF RADAR: ‘Refuge: Poems’
Dave Morrison’s newest collection of poems is largely devoted to trying to answer, with characteristic wonderment, the elemental questions that go with his perplexing need to make art.